Tetradrachm

Skione was a Greek colony on the Pallene peninsula of Chalkidike, and its independent coinage was abruptly terminated — along with the city itself — when Athens ordered its destruction in 421 BC following a revolt during the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides records that the adult male population was killed and the women and children enslaved, making any surviving Skionean coinage a relic of a community that was deliberately erased.

This tetradrachm dates to a generation before that end, struck when Skione was prosperous enough to produce heavy silver on the Thraco-Macedonian weight standard.